Apr 29, 2015
By Robin Ewing This drone footage of Kathmandu does an incredible job of showing the scale of damage done by Saturday’s earthquake in Nepal. The only other way to get these kinds of images would be to hire a helicopter. Drone journalism is up and...
Mar 3, 2015
by Robin Ewing The Columbia Journalism Review this week published a thoughtful article on plagiarism and the trickiness of defining it in a digital world where “all ideas are secondhand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources.”...
Feb 27, 2015
An article from the New Republic last week discusses what the author calls “feelings journalism,” which is simply a new way of describing an old kind of writing: assuming we know what another person is thinking and feeling without actually asking. I often see this in...
Feb 12, 2015
By Robin Ewing Nonny de la Peña screened her immersive journalism project, called Project Syria, at Sundance Film Festival last month. Users wear a virtual-reality headset to experience a street bomb in 3D, the visuals meticulously recreated from a video of a real...
Feb 1, 2015
By Robin Ewing The mainland Chinese assistant to a German journalist was arrested in Beijing in October after taking photos at Occupy Central in Hong Kong and posting them to her WeChat account. She is still being held, almost four months later, for “inciting a...
